Book 2 & 3 Flashcards
Acquit
not guilty
altercation
a heated argument
asseveration
serious statement or declaration
bacchanalian
drunken
barrister
lawyer
commiseration
sympathy
cowed
timid from fear
debauched
corrupted
demeanor
outward behavior
despondent
lacking hope
disreputable
not respectable
functionary
an official
imputation
attribution
incorrigible
not able to be corrected
indictment
a formal charge or accusation
insinuation
hint or indirect suggestion
laudanum
drug containing opium
malign
to slender
obliterate
to block out
parricide
killing of a parent
politic
showing good judgement
propensity
tendency
rapturous
full of feeling
repose
sleep
superciliously
scornfully, arrogantly
supplication
humble request
timorous
timid
tocsin
an alarm or bell
unimpeachable
impossible to doubt
vehemence
intense feeling
visage
face
abashed
ill at ease
acquiesce
to agree without protest
antipathy
strong dislike
aquiline
curved like an eagles beak
countenance
face
culpability
blame
dissonance
lack of harmony
domicile
poor dueling place
emigrant
person who leaves their own country to settle in another
emissary
a person sent on special mission
frugal
thrifty
ligature
used for trying or binding
ostentatiously
in a showy manner
repudiate
to cause to be rejected
sequestrate
separate
unprecedented
new; unheard of
pernicious
extremely harmful
obstinacy
stubbornness